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[–] 46 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, she isn’t a passive bystander she’s actively making things worse.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    This just dawned on me not long ago. Like how does someone write the character of Lucius Malfoy and then go "what if I used my tremendous wealth and influence to lobby ceaselessly against people who transitioned into my category from the more dominant one, and who already tend to be discriminated against violently as a result? I could maybe use a theatrical rhetoric of victimization to distract from my very shady alliances."

    Like wtf lady you know that makes you the bad guy you literally wrote a series of books explaining it to children.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Oddly enough the guy that plays Malfoy is the only one that's actually still on her side in the public sphere. It's not necessary consequential but I think it's interesting.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    What I love is how the "Most Evil Wizards in History" seem to not actually do anything wrong.

    Salazar Slytherin's crime - Being Irish at a time Britain didn't get along with Ireland

    The crime of Grindelwald - Not wanting the Nazis to come to power

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  • [+] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    She's doing it because she secretly wants to be a guy.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    It doesn't because it's actually true.

    JK Rowling has actually made comments about how if she were young, the "gender ideology" would have her "turning herself into a boy", and that in the 80's she "Sometimes thought about wanting to be one."

    Queerphobes are usually queer, that's their motivation for oppressing their fellow queers. Because they're told that part of themselves is wrong, so they seek to "purge themselves" and become "Pure in God's eyes"

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    This quote doesn't even make any sense. Apathy is not the opposite of empathy.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Because she's really not a good author. The morals in Harry Potter are basic and inconsistent.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You have to remember. This is a woman who argued in her book series for literal children that opposing slavery makes you a crazy person.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    The inconsistent part was when there was a whole subplot about Dobby wanting freedom and the reader sympathizing with that character. Then later, JK writing that Dobby was a weirdo for wanting that.

    Shaun's comment that JK keeps threatening to make the story interesting was such a good stinger.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago*

    Yes, I would also put antipathy in opposition, but maybe I am just a better writer.

    Edit: it really is just a wish.com variant of the MLK Jr. quote about the words of our enemies — something, something — not as bad as the silence of our friends.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    Yea. The woman who said trans woman aren't "real" (biological sex) women is a monster.

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